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Twiplomacy

Twiplomacy noun: the practice of conducting public diplomacy using the social media platform Twitter.

Noun

Twiplomacy (uncountable)

  1. The practice of conducting public diplomacy using the social media platform Twitter.
    • After a very slow start, the US State Department is now the world’s most active practitioner of e-PD and the source of many best practices in digital diplomacy. It operates an official blog called DipNote, and actively services Twitter accounts in Arabic, Farsi, Russian, Spanish, Hindi, and French...2013, Daryl Copeland, “Digital Technology”, in Andrew F[enton] Cooper, Jorge Heine, Ramesh Thakur, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part...
    • One study on the use of Twiplomacy found 264 Twitter accounts for government institutions in 125 countries but that only 30 heads of state personally used their Twitter accounts.2015, Anne Aly, “The Media and International Relations”, in Emilian Kavalski, editor, Encounters with World Affairs: An Introduction to International Relations, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y....

Examples of Twiplomacy in a sentence

  • This new business line—‘Twiplomacy’ in the increasingly popular idiom—is growing fast, with more and more U.S. diplomatic missions and practitioners joining the fray.2013, Daryl Copeland, “Digital Technology”, in Andrew F[enton] Cooper, Jorge Heine, Ramesh Thakur, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Modern...
  • This bachelor thesis documents the analysis of Russia's Twiplomacy in the Russia-Ukraine war concerning the framing approach.2022, Varuna Mattis Venker, “Introduction”, in Russian Twiplomacy in the Russia-Ukraine War. Frames and Narratives as Strategic...
  • The government in Beijing seems to acknowledge that the use of Twiplomacy has never been more important than today with its growing roles in Indonesia.2022 December, Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat, “China’s Growing ‘Twiplomacy’ in Indonesia”, in The Political Economy of China-Indonesia...

Origin of Twiplomacy

Blend of Twitter + diplomacy.

Questions about Twiplomacy

What does Twiplomacy mean?
Twiplomacy means the practice of conducting public diplomacy using the social media platform Twitter.
How do you use Twiplomacy in a sentence?
This new business line—‘Twiplomacy’ in the increasingly popular idiom—is growing fast, with more and more U.S. diplomatic missions and practitioners joining the fray.
What part of speech is Twiplomacy?
Twiplomacy is a noun.

Words near Twiplomacy in the dictionary

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  2. twintrons
  3. twintuition
  4. twiny
  5. twip
  6. Twiplomacy
  7. twips
  8. twire
  9. twire-pipe
  10. twire-pipes
  11. twired

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